John P, I always feel left out I was always that kid at the back calling out 'hey wait for me'. Poor little tacker.

I'm not in central China, just a wee bit south of the river, on the river actually, and on the border of Jiangsu province. Getting to Jiangsu border takes about 10 minutes on the bus, Nanjing is an extra 30 minutes. Bit of an industrial no mans' land, but I like it.

While GD is definitely SE China, I think it would have enough differences in itself to qualify for it's own region and I expected a lot more votes for what I assume to be a heavily populated area with FTs.

I wouldn't agree with that anymore than for any other Chinese province. What are the differences that qualify it for its own region?

Not trying to argue, just curious.

Guangdong is home to 100 million Chinese and has the highest GDP of any province, beside this Cantonese Chinese language and culture is quite different.

ummm, would it not make more sense to have
hainan included with guangxi?

Sichuan, Hainan, Yunnan got grouped together because of my subjective feeling that they are simply awesome places to be. They are related in that they are not very developed, have a low cost of living, loaded with tourists both native and international and finally due to the low percentage of ESLs who get the chance to work in these places.

For most people Sichuan, Hainan, Yunnan are simply places we visit for holidays. Consider it the "holiday ESL zone"

Several years ago I met a FT who was just visiting our campus. After chatting for awhile I suddenly recognized him. "You're XXX from Dave's ESL Cafe!!" He asked me how I knew, and all I could say was that I knew him through his posts.

I think we do get to know folks here on the boards. Not everyone, not well, but it is possible to get a pretty darn good idea about people.

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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:47 pm Post subject:

@ Ariadne ... LMAO! ... THAT is a hilarious story!

I work as the Director of the English Department at an International School, so I interview and evaluate potential teachers all the time ... I've often wondered if I would run into someone who's a regular on Dave's ESL Cafe. It hasn't happened yet, but I keep thinking it will -- eventually!